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Why did colonial laws try to make pastoralists more settled?

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Correct answer: So they could be controlled and taxed

The direct answer is option A: laws tried to make pastoralists settled so they could be controlled and taxed more easily. Pastoralists traditionally moved with animals according to seasons, grass, and water. A mobile population was harder for a government to register, supervise, collect taxes from, and regulate. Step by step, settlement fixed people to a place; fixed residence made records and officials’ supervision easier; regular residence also made taxation and enforcement more manageable. Option A is correct because it identifies administrative and revenue motives. Option B is wrong because the policy did not aim to make people settle in the sea. Option C is wrong because forcing settlement was not mainly to ensure that herding would never stop; restrictions could actually harm herding. Option D is wrong because the purpose was not to give all forests to pastoralists. Settling pastoralists was a policy goal in some contexts, not proof that every group became permanently settled. Memory cue: mobile people were harder to count and tax; settlement made them easier to control.

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